The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-04-20
fAE BEAUTY OF THE FAMILY.
Generally Arrogant, selfish, vain and
z. Dfsrnrter,fe,l-ETs Final Fate

Discontented-HsrF Final Fate.
There is one inmost families, / believe,
certainly in nearly all large families, and
my opinion is that the family beauty is a
mistake of nature. with which opinion
have no doubt many others will agree, es-
pccially those who have had, or are hav-
ing Experience with one. Sometimes the
beauty is really beautiful or handsome,
sometimes only SO by comparison with
the other members of the family, and
Sometimes (and this is not seldom) no one
with unpreiudiced eyes can see any beauty
whatever Ia the much admired person.
The beauty is always arrogant, whether
consciously or not, always selfish, and al
ways vain. She is made so much OF,
from the time she is baby upward, and
told SO often that she is pretty, that she
could not well help it.
They may do nearly, if not quite, as
they like, and their faults are excused in
a way which Ito any one but their adj
nlirl1g relatives) is perfectly ridiculous,
because they are $50 pretty Speak of
their audacity, selfisiness, rudeness,
thoug ghtlessness, carelessness, disregard
for the feelings of others, disrespectful-
on in fsct, any other,qilality which.
in plain person would be thought repre-
hensible, and the answer is very likely to
be: Eyes, yes, know it is SO sometimes,
but then she is SO pretty, you know, -
and SO we must put up with their rude
ness, carelessness, or any of oheir above
mentioned faults, and be domineered over
simply because they are 80 pretty.
And then the parents and other relatives
of the beauty" viii often be partial to
in a way which is very unfair to the other
members of the family, for it is very hard
to know that father and s'mother-'
are prouder of So-and-So than they are
of you, because she is the most beautiful,
although most likely you are far the most
obedient and respectful.
And these "beauties. SO often seem to
spend their lives In giving trouble and
sorrow for all the love and admiration
they receive. / knew gentleman once
who, in speaking of beautiful little
child to near relative, said (and he was
old enough to know, 'FShe is very
pretty; SO pretty that she will give
plenty of heartaches, " and, although still
very young, she hGs verified his predic-
tions many times, and seems in a fair
way to do SO many times more. And yet
these "beauties" are to be pitied, for al
though they make other people miser-
able, they also make themselves so, for
they are nearly always discontented. A
family beauty" is never so happy as the
palmer ones, for she expects so much ad-
miration and attention that what she does
receive seems very little, and there are
ten chances to one that she will do one
of three things. Perhaps she will marry
while still almost child (for with all her
beauty she generally has great fear of
not getting marrie6, and disappoints the
high hopes which her great beauty has
raised in the minds of her friends by set
tling down into a discontented, common
place woman, and soon fretting all her
beauty away. Or she may slight and re-
ject az her chances until she realizes
that she has passed her ''premier jue-
nesse, and then takes the first one that
offers himself, and SO averts the terrible
danger of becoming what the popular
phrase terms an '.old maid;' or, most
likely of all, stay unmarried all her life,
for it is well known fact that more
pretty women stay single than plain ones.
and it is all owing to the fact that they
expect more than their more modest.
if palmer, sisters. 1t is these disap-
pointed beauties" who make up, in a
great measure, the great army of typical
'.old maids, - for their annoyance at not
marrying well is in proportion to their
pride of beauty, and it naturally sours
their temper. Chicago Times.